Comments on: Linux find command

By: abhilash

abhilash — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:04:08 +0000

how to find all files contating a particular text
for eg
i want to list all files in folder /home which contains “linux”

By: The Linux Blog » Linux History Command

The Linux Blog » Linux History Command — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:02:24 +0000

[...] are doomed to repeat typing. A lot. Seriously, the history command can help you remember the exact Linux find command with the intricate search options you typed a while ago. It could help you open up your x2x or [...]

By: anarchy1

anarchy1 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:37:25 +0000

true grep isnt required but for anyone like me ..
I just love grep if you dont know the exact name of the file lets say the file is called
foobar1.txt

and all i can remember is it starts with
foob
then find wont necessarily find the resault you want
while
find \ | grep -i foob
will probably give you the closest match with no effort, and if you have multiple foobar.txt for example
foobar1.txt
2foobar.txt
and
101foobar.txt
then grep will show you these easy.
and color the exact mach to
what more could i ask for..?

By: TheLinuxBlog.com

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:01:23 +0000

Hey Kaleb, you don’t need to use grep to find a file, if your filename is blaa.txt you can do find / -name “blaa.txt” or find / -iname “blaa.txt”

By: kaleb

kaleb — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:24:50 +0000

pretty good and its deffintly one of the more commonly ignored commands and it is deffintly a great tool to have in your box. but what im seeing here in your article is that you forgot to mention grep and pipe. while not directly related to the find command they are related to narrowing down resaults. for example when i want to find something i typicly use find / | grep blaa.txt find / will find every file on the filesystem which in linux is a fairly instant resualt but is huge and it doesnt show me anything i want to know. but i can easiy add | grep blaa.txt which will find that file anywhere on the filesystem almost instantly. just my two cents on the subject